Exam question 1 · Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur'…
Which object did Arthur declare that he would not surrender to the petitioner?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, Arthur · What happens: declare, not surrender · To what, where: petitioner
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1338 «Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur's boon, rides off with Kai and six others, and meets Custennin's wife, who hides a youth in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declare | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 declare | aux |
| 4 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declare | nsubj |
| 5 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 surrender | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 surrender | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 surrender | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 surrender | advmod |
| 10 | surrender | surrender | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 declare | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 petitioner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 petitioner | det |
| 13 | petitioner | petitioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrender | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 declare | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past · do-support | which object | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not surrender | would | Arthur | the petitioner | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to petitioner=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
his horse and cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cloak | cc |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
his ship and mantle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ship | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mantle | cc |
| 4 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ship | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his ship, mantle, and magic horn of plenty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ship | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mantle | punct |
| 4 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ship | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horn | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 horn | cc |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horn | amod |
| 8 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ship | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 plenty | case |
| 10 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horn | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the sword Caledfwlch and his whole treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Caledfwlch | Caledfwlch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 treasury | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treasury | amod |
| 7 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Caledfwlch | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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